Pimp my Ride

[atpollard]

chargen is over and you survived, and you're rolling the benefits, and you get a boat. or you find one, or you steal one, or you're assigned one, whatever. new or eighty years old, doesn't matter, it's beautiful. but you want to make it MORE beautiful.

what do you do to build up your boat? better drives? better guns? better computer? install a disco dance floor and sparkle ball in the lounge?

Flames. Lots of flames.

Paintjob and Chrome.

All new shag carpet, reupholster the commons in something classy like red velvet, gold plate the light fixtures and add some black-lights so the new velvet painting of dogs playing poker will really pop when you are relaxing with your hookah.

[We have been boarded by pirates twice, but for some reason they refused to steal anything except the beer from the fridge.]

Paint it pink, lower it, and add a bouncy air suspension for those long stop lights.

Cue up "Low Rider" on the stereo.

Mural on the sides in the style of Boris Vallejo.

Diamond- or gem-shaped windows near the back.

Fuzzy dice hanging above the bridge's main viewscreen.

Maybe there is something seriously wrong with me, but I think that I would really like to see this ship. Is there anyone else interested?

I don't want a 'commercial' project, I am talking about just doing something outrageous for fun. If there is interest, I'll agree to help. If someone will stat it out, I'll work on a deckplan and help with the rough massing model.

Is there anyone interested in doing an exterior render?

Anyone want to take a shot at an interior view of any part of this?

Anyone brave enough to create and draw a crew?

Anyone interested in describing the interior?

Like I said, if people are interested then I am willing to help.
Does Freelance Traveller need a pimped out Scout?

 

[atpollard]

If the character 'Lovelace' from the movie 'Happy Feet' was a Traveller Character (and not a penguin), what would his ship be like?

 

[Spenser TR]

I read the original post and thought about descriptions of the various spaces, like a walk around the outside and then the inside being narrated by someone. The commentary would have emotion and anecdotes about the type, impressions and some mindless chatter of the kind any car/plane/boat owner would be able to relate to. Along the lines of the "Old Timer" in SOM but less on ops and more on personality and feelie-stuff.

However it turns out, I'd definitely be interested in something like this. I'd be down for helping with the text-y parts.

 

[Enoki]

You definitely have to add the UV under the ship lighting, and an awesome sound system so everyone in space knows you're there... 120 dB at least... After all, if no one in space can hear you, what's the point? :rofl:

 

[flykiller]

"he remains a bit of a show-off and announces his ship's presence with full news and visual advertizing of its arrival, including a projected music-and-holo show accompanying its landing and lifting."

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Captain: :devil:"Come to my cabin. I have a collection of artwork of Vargr with Kkree and Vargr with others in flagrante delicto. All in tasteful black velvet. I would like your opinion of them.".

Bored Noblewoman: "I am sure you are familiar with Jackson Pollack as well. Thank you. No."

o: :rofl:

 

[flykiller]

I started to look up Jackson Pollack, but am old and experienced enough to have thought better of it and decided not to.

 

[mike wightman]

I would quote Guardians of the Galaxy but I think I would break board rules...

 

[atpollard]

"he remains a bit of a show-off and announces his ship's presence with full news and visual advertizing of its arrival, including a projected music-and-holo show accompanying its landing and lifting."

I like that as a starting point, but would it be possible to get a 200 dTon version ...

... perhaps with no low berths, fewer staterooms and less cargo, but the same J3, 2G performance and amenities.
... more a mobile party than a working merchant.

Then if I could get the list of spaces and dTons, it would help with deckplanning.

 

[flykiller]

what, a list of stats? sure, it's just hg2.

the erin (j2m2) is 200 dtons, and almost the entire lower deck is available for any use.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I started to look up Jackson Pollack, but am old and experienced enough to have thought better of it and decided not to.

It's kinda like monkey's slinging poo, but Pollack replaced poo with paint. Here's an actual example:

 

[flykiller]

It's kinda like monkey's slinging poo

I see ... a monkey slinging its own crap. the dark crowded colors towards the bottom half of the image show the monkey trapped in his own world view, and the red blotches struggling to escape from behind the green and brown show his rage and drive for freedom. but there is hope! the rising lines and brighter colors above show that he may rise, nay!, is rising! above his primitive surroundings ....

 

[Blue Ghost]

.... Pimp my ship's launch? o:

 

[flykiller]

.... Pimp my ship's launch?

kick-start the crowd-funded pimped ship's launch.

 

[HRLMT]

Pimping the ride & Art.

Is this, or is this not he "pimp my ride" thread for spaceship owners, or is this now the Traveller art critic's corner thread. If so, cue the jazz music and the beat poetry* reading ! Of course, some of you will have to research what "beat poetry" is - so good luck !

 

[atpollard]

.... Pimp my ship's launch? o:

In MgT wasn't the 30 dT Ship's Boat capable of the fastest MD G rating?

You may have a point with Pimping out a Small Craft ... more opportunities to loiter and show off the air ride.

 

[Leitz]

I can almost see doing a story around this. What do you think of the major character(s)? Still happy with excess or tired? On the way up, or down? Alone, or always with friends?

 

[boomslang]

You definitely have to add the UV under the ship lighting, and an awesome sound system so everyone in space knows you're there... 120 dB at least... After all, if no one in space can hear you, what's the point? :rofl:

Heh.

Seriously, though... just rig up an 80Hz or maybe a 40Hz crossover and patch the audio feed into the m-drive's gravitics-based acceleration compensators, and turn the whole ship into a giant subwoofer. Fun for all aboard -- and spectacularly annoying to those vessels unfortunate enough to be berthed nearby whenever you make port.

Turn your hoopty starship into a straight-up "boomship", as it were.

 

[Enoki]

Heh.

Seriously, though... just rig up an 80Hz or maybe a 40Hz crossover and patch the audio feed into the m-drive's gravitics-based acceleration compensators, and turn the whole ship into a giant subwoofer. Fun for all aboard -- and spectacularly annoying to those vessels unfortunate enough to be berthed nearby whenever you make port.

Turn your hoopty starship into a straight-up "boomship", as it were.

Only if you tie in all the iris valve hatches to open and close to form acoustic boom boxes out of the ships compartments.... o:

 

[Blue Ghost]

Twin chandeliers on the front. Think the pimp mobile from "Escape from New York".